Party sponsorship and political incorporation : Communist Party membership and social stratification in urban China

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maocan Guo
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Urban China ◽  
Political Incorporation ◽  
Party Membership

Communist party membership in five former Soviet bloc countries, 1945–1989

2004 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary N. Marks
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Soviet Bloc ◽  
Party Membership ◽  
Policy Model ◽  
Highly Educated ◽  
The Social

This study examines the social composition of the communist party in the Soviet Union and four East European countries during the post-war period. Two alternative explanations for joining the communist party are examined: the classical political participation model from Western political science and the party policy model. In Western countries, the people who join political parties tend to be male, older, married, highly educated and in higher status occupations. According to the party policies model, recruitment should reflect the party’s policies, ideologies and intentions to promote particular social groups such as, workers, peasants, young people, women and those with proletarian backgrounds. The data analyzed are from nationally representative surveys from the Social Stratification in Eastern Europe after 1989 study. Stronger support was found for the political participation model. Generally, parental party membership, being male, married, highly educated and working in an administrative position influenced joining, whereas social background, a manual occupation, and political time period had little or no influence. Between-country differences in the process of joining were minor. There was little evidence that recruitment reflected the parties’ ideologies or policies.

scholarly journals Student governments in Chinese higher education: reflection on college students’ and student cadres’ political trust

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Huang ◽  
Panpan Yao ◽  
Fan Li ◽  
Xiaowei Liao
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
College Students ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Power Distribution ◽  
Chinese Communist Party ◽  
Political Trust ◽  
Chinese Higher Education ◽  
Student Government ◽  
Party Membership ◽  
The Chinese Communist Party

AbstractThis paper documents the structure and operations of student governments in contemporary Chinese higher education and their effect on college students’ political trust and party membership. We first investigate the structure and power distribution within student governments in Chinese universities, specifically focusing on the autonomy of student governments and the degree to which they represent students. Second, using a large sample of college students, we examine how participating in student government affects their political trust and party membership. Our results show that student government in Chinese higher education possesses a complex, hierarchical matrix structure with two main parallel systems—the student union and the Chinese Communist Party system. We found that power distribution within student governments is rather uneven, and student organisations that are affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party have an unequal share of power. In addition, we found that students’ cadre experience is highly appreciated in student cadre elections, and being a student cadre significantly affects their political trust and party membership during college.

scholarly journals Party, Class, and Mobility: An Empirical Investigation of Parents' Chinese Communist Party Membership's Effects on Children's Social Class in Contemporary China

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tongtian Xiao
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Chinese Communist Party ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
General Social Survey ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
Market Transition ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Party Membership

Sociological interest in post-reform China has burgeoned since sociologists such as Victor Nee and Andrew Walder had initiated a debate of whether the market transition of former socialist countries benefit the direct producers of the market rather than political elites. Informed by the market transition debate, stratification theories, and intergenerational mobility studies, this study aims to examine whether under the party-state political structure, ruling party membership is a substantial exogenous source of social class stratification. Data in this study is drawn from the 2013 Chinese General Social Survey (n = 2,209). The ordinary least square (OLS) regression suggests that for non-institutionalized Chinese adults who are born during the reform era (1978 -2013), their parents' Chinese Communist Party membership is a statistically significant factor in determining their social class measured by their income and education, when holding constant sex, age, region, urbanity, and ethnicity. This study contributes to the sociological understanding of how political institutions shape individual socio-economic status and how state intervention perpetuates or diminishes social inequality on the individual level.

scholarly journals Economic and non-economic returns to communist party membership in Vietnam

2019 ◽  
Vol 122 ◽  
pp. 370-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Markussen ◽  
Quang-Thanh Ngo
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Economic Returns ◽  
Party Membership

Moses Finley’s Communist Party Membership

2017 ◽  
Vol 138 (4) ◽  
pp. 739-742 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. S. Naiden
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Party Membership
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